The story
Blend of giant + virus; coined by J M Claverie, H Ogata, S Audic, C Abergel, K Suhre, P E Fournier, in a 2006 paper in Virus Research.
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girus
Today it means: a type of giant virus, a giant nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (giant NCLDV) Full definition →